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Vol. 51, No.2

(Founded in 1972—Our 593rd Consecutive Issue)

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David Minnear, right, and his son Michael, left, represent the second and third generations of their family business, started by David’s father in 1972. They report that they have enjoyed healthy markets with strong and steady demand from mills over the last two years. Versatile enough to tackle most any tract, they keep mostly newer equipment, including a Komatsu track cutter. Story begins on Page 8. (Photo by David Abbott)

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everything. I asked her for help with my geography, and she told me where Richmond was. She helped me with my math. She told me my pet chipJohn is having a very bad day. munk that I had caught in the park just the day before would eat fruit and He tried to button his shirt and the button fell off. nuts. He picked up his wallet and it fell apart. Then there was the time Petey, our pet canary, died. I called “InformaHe went to open the door and the knob fell off. tion Please” and told her the sad story. She listened, and then said things Now he is afraid to pee. grown-ups say to soothe a child. But I was not consoled. I asked her, “Why is it that birds should sing so beautifully and bring joy to all families, only to end up as a heap of feathers on the bottom of a cage?” She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly, “Wayne, Pete was in a job interview the other day when the manager handed him his always remember that there are other worlds to sing in.” laptop and said, “I want you to try and sell this to me.” Somehow, I felt better. Pete put it under his arm, walked out of the room and went home. Another day I was on the telephone. “Information Please.” Soon the manager called Pete’s cell and demanded that he return the laptop I heard “Information” in the now familiar voice. immediately. “How do I spell fix?” I asked. “Not so fast,” Pete said. “Two hundred bucks and it’s yours.” All this took place in a small town in the Southwest. When I was nine years old, we moved across the country to Boston. I missed my friend very much. “Information Please” belonged in that old wooden box back home and I 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. somehow never thought of trying the shiny new phone that sat on the table 2) The farm was used to produce produce. in the hall. As I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood con3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. versations never really left me. Often, in moments of doubt and perplexity 4) We must polish the Polish furniture. I would recall the serene sense of security I had then. I appreciated now 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. how patient, understanding, and kind she was to have spent her time on a 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. little boy. 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in the present. Seattle. I had about a half-hour or so between planes. I spent 15 minutes or 8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. so on the phone with my sister, who lived there then. Without thinking 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. what I was doing, I dialed my home town operator and said, “Information 10) I did not object to the object. Please.” Miraculously, I heard the small, clear voice I knew so well. I hadn’t planned this, but I heard myself saying, “Could you please tell me how to spell fix?” When I was a young boy, my father had one of the first telephones in our There was a long pause. Then came the soft-spoken answer, “I guess neighborhood. I remember the polished old case fastened to the wall. The your finger must have healed by now.” shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach the teleI laughed, “So it’s really you,” I said. “I wonder if you have any idea phone, but I listened with fascination when my mother talked to it. how much you meant to me during that time?” Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an She replied, “I wonder if you know how much your calls meant to me. I amazing person. Her name was “Information Please” and there was nothing never had any children and I used to look forward to your calls.” she did not know. She could supply anyone’s number and the correct time. I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I asked if I My personal experience with the genie-in-a-bottle came one day while my could call her again. mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing myself at the tool bench in the base“Please do,” she said. “Just ask for Sally.” ment, I whacked my finger with a hammer. The pain was terrible, but there Three months later I called her again. seemed no point in crying because there was no A different voice answered, “Information.” one home to give sympathy. I walked around the I asked for Sally. “The difficult is what takes a little time; the house sucking my throbbing finger. “Are you a friend?” she asked. impossible is what takes a little longer.” Then I thought of the telephone! I ran for the “Yes, a very old friend,” I answered. —Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen footstool in the parlor and dragged it to the land“I’m sorry to have to tell you this,” she said. ing. Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver and “Sally had been working part time the last few held it to my ear. “Information, please,” I said years because she was sick. She died five “A lie doesn’t become the truth, wrong into the mouthpiece. weeks ago.” doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t beI heard a click or two and a small clear voice Before I could hang up, she said, “Wait a spoke into my ear: “Information.” minute, did you say your name was Wayne?” come good, just because it’s accepted by a “I hurt my finger,” I wailed into the phone, the “Yes.” I answered. majority.” —Pastor Rick Warren tears coming now that I had an audience. “Well, Sally left a message for you. She “Isn’t your mother home?” came the question. wrote it down in case you called. Let me read it “Nobody’s home but me,” I blubbered. to you.” The note said, “Tell him there are “You can’t use up creativity. The more you “Are you bleeding?” the voice asked. other worlds to sing in. He’ll know what I use, the more you have.” “No,” I replied. “I hit my finger with the hammean.” —Author Maya Angelou mer and it hurts.” I thanked her and hung up. I knew what “Can you open the icebox?” she asked. Sally meant. I said I could. The moral: never underestimate the impres“Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.” “Then chip off a little bit of ice and hold it to sion you may make on others. Whose life have —Poet, novelist and essayist Julia Alvarez your finger,” said the voice. you touched today? Remember, life is a jourAfter that, I called “Information Please” for ney, not a guided tour.

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No Stopping ■ Minnear men David and Michael continue a family tradition that goes back a half century.

By David Abbott SPARTA, Tenn. ★ ike Southern Loggin’ Times, which first went to press 50 years ago this October, the Minnear family business got its start in 1972. That was the year James Minnear—Zuke to his friends—first got into business for himself, calling his operation Minnear Logging back then. Zuke’s son, David, went to work with his dad right after finishing high school in 1979. David’s brother Ronnie also worked with them. In that first decade or so, Zuke and his two sons mostly cut saw timber before shifting focus more to pulpwood, starting in 1989. That earlier incarnation of the Minnear family business has been featured before in this magazine’s history: once in SLT in 1990, when the crew had recently added CTR pullthrough delimbers. “They came out when we got those delimbers,” David recalls. “That was a big deal when the pull through came out; it was a great innovation.” SLT’s sister publication Timber Harvesting featured the Minnears in 1996. “We had gone in the chipping

business in 1995,” David says. “We invested about $2 million to do that.” David had a lot of good years with his dad and brother, but time marches on. Ronnie died 20 years ago, and Zuke followed about 10 years after. David had already rechristened the operation as David Minnear Logging in the year 2000—difficult to imagine that’s already been 22 years ago, but David is still in the woods and still going strong. “He’s about to be cutting some of the same tracts three times,” his own son, David Michael, laughs. Today, David, 61, works with Michael, 40: another Minnear father-and-son team, representing the third generation of the family business. A fourth generation might be in the making; Michael’s son Zack is just 14, so it’s too soon to say, but he may well follow in the footsteps of his forebears. At one time the modern Minnear business operated two crews, a thinning crew and a hardwood crew, with David overseeing one and Michael the other. A few years back the thinning crew faded out as market demand for its production waned, so they went back to run-

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ning just one crew, and that’s how they’re doing it today. “And we’re doing just as good,” David says. “We put out just as much wood now with one as we did then with two.”

Timber, Markets David Minnear Logging works for a wood dealer, Hiwassee Timber Co. out of Athens, Tenn. They also work tracts for the various mills to which they haul. For them, that works out better than looking for and buying their own stands most of the time. When SLT visited David and Michael’s job in December, the crew was working on TIR (Timberland Investment Resources) land for Huber Engineered Woods, which had bought the block. “It is 100 acres of thinning and another 100 acres out front to clear-cut,” Michael says. The Minnear crew is handling both, which should come as no surprise; they favor versatility over specialization. “Pine or swamps, hardwood too, we cut anything that needs to be cut,” Michael explains. “It just depends on what is going at the time.” They’re hauling everything from this stand to Huber’s mill in Spring

City. Other primary mill destinations for the Minnears include Resolute Forest Products in Calhoun and WestRock in Stevenson, Ala. The crew hauls on average 12-15 loads a day, though it varies. “Thinning is less; 70-75 loads a week,” Michael says. “With a clear-cut it might be 80-90 loads a week, if you wanted to work it that hard.” Lately they have been working hard enough: six days a week to meet the high volume mills have needed for the last year and a half or so. Demand has been healthy in their markets through the pandemic. “It’s been doing good ever since the ‘rona hit,” Michael says. And beyond demand for higher volume, they say the price they get paid per ton has gone up a little too, with some mills paying bonuses. “We are doing better than we were,” David confirms. “Before corona, it was average; it could have been better. Now it is better. They are trying to work with you, and we’re running wide open.” In Michael’s view, it’s a pretty simple equation: “If they need the wood, they will work with you; if they don’t, they won’t,” he sums it up. “It’s just business.”

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Machines Equipment includes a John Deere 437 loader, four Deere skidders (two 648G-IIIs, 748H, 748L-II), and a Komatsu 445 track cutter with Quadco head. Power Equipment in Knoxville (Komatsu) and Meade Tractor in Chattanooga (John Deere) are the equipment dealers. Michael notes that Mackey Sutton at Meade has been a great help to the Minnears. They just bought the L-II skidder, a ’19 model, but they had wanted a brand new one. “We couldn’t get one,” David says. “Nobody had one; they were all backed up.” Michael worked out a deal with Chuck Meade (Meade Tractor President) to buy the ’19 model temporarily and trade it when a ’22 model is available, hopefully in April. Those backlogs on new equipment are hardly isolated incidents. Supply chain delays have plagued about every industry, it seems, including on replacement parts to make repairs. “We have a motor down right now and they can’t get the parts to fix it,” David notes. The loader and cutter are both ’19 models as well. “We try to trade cutters every four years to keep a good machine and get a good tradein,” David says. “If you keep it too long, the value goes down.” After Komatsu redesigned its machine, the Minnears bought the 26th one made. David says they’ve had three since Komatsu took over the brand, and before that he ran Timbcos. Service truck is a 2018 Ford 554 with a crane, welder and a Gates hose machine. They’ve had this service bed on three trucks. “We keep swapping it out,” David says. “The next one, we are going to trade it in because it is getting a little rusty.” They prefer Wix filters and Husqvarna chain saws for trimming. A local Mennonite shop sharpens all buck saw and delimber chains. “They are really good at it,”

Due to supply shortages, Minnear recently bought this '19 model to run until a '22 is available.

Meade Tractor in Chattanooga supplies John Deere for the Minnears, while Power Equipment in Knoxville handles their Komatsu needs.

Michael says. “They charge so much a chain and it works out good. We also buy a lot of oil from them.” Minnear Logging runs Mack trucks, including ’19, ’21 and ’22

From left: David Minnear, Adam Wyatt, Michael Minnear, Josh Denton, Marvin Scott, Jerry England, Don Scarbrough

models, and two that David’s dad bought new in 1996 and ’97. They buy from Mack dealer McMahon Truck Centers in Nashville and get truck parts from Worldwide Equip-

ment in Chattanooga. The trucks pull five Pitts and three Magnolia trailers. DEF on the newer machines and trucks hasn’t posed many problems

David Minnear, left, with his late brother Ronnie, center, and father James, right, made the cover of Timber Harvesting in April 1996.

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for the Minnears. They had to change DEF sensors on a few. “The sensor is about the only issue we have had,” according to Michael. Hawkins & Rawlinson, based in Auburn, Ala., has provided Minnear’s insurance for a long time. “They have worked awfully good for us over the years,” David says. The agents come out periodically to inspect everything and provide tips for safety meetings, all of which the logger records in a book. “Insurance cost is about the same,” the elder Minnear says. “That kind of varies;

according to how old your machines are, the price will go up and down. When the machines get real old, you don’t need to put them on; it ain’t worth it.” The biggest operating expense these days is fuel; the cost has gone up by about $1.50 since the start of 2021, David points out.

Maintenance They change oil every 250 hours on machines and 10,000 miles on trucks. The Minnears have a full-

time mechanic, Drew Jones, to handle maintenance and repairs at the shop. Minnear Logging employs him, but Jones also runs his own shop and has three employees under him. He leases his shop building from the Minnears and maintains it at his own expense. “He has his own business there, but we come fist,” David says. “If our stuff goes in, they stop what they are doing to work on our stuff. We hired him right before my dad died. He’s very beneficial to us.” In the 40+ years he’s been in the

woods, David has seen equipment change dramatically. “It is a lot nicer now, and lot more headache, too,” he laments. “You have to have a computer to work on anything. The first thing they do now is plug up the laptop.” To that end, Jones has a $10,000 computer program to diagnose problems, and its software has to be updated periodically. “It is so expensive to work on this stuff now,” David frowns. “Just packing cylinders was so simple back then.” The dealers are also plugged into the machines by remote, Michael notes. “If it throws a code, they know what’s going on before I do,” he says. “The Meade man one day called and told me my loader needed a fuel filter. I just wish I had paid a little more attention in computer class!”

Crew Loader man J.W. England, 62, started working for James Minnear when he was a teenager. “I’ve known him my whole life,” David figures. Likewise, cutter man Adam Wyatt originally worked for James in 1995, left for a while to log with his own dad, then returned to the Minnear fold in 2006, and has remained ever since. Skidder operator Josh Denton and several truck drivers have also been around a good while. Keeping drivers is no problem, David says, because of the new trucks. “Nobody wants to drive a real old truck, even though they are in good shape.” Drivers are Marshall Smith, Randy Simms, Marvin Scott, Tim Burger, and contract hauler Kevin Hicks. David’s wife Debbie takes care of bookwork and bills. The high school sweethearts have been married about 42 years. Michael has a brother, Johnny, who wasn’t interested in logging. Instead, he studied to be a teacher, but after about a year in that profession, decided instead to become an Army Blackhawk pilot. “Johnny tried a little of everything, and this finally clicked,” David recalls. “He didn’t really like logging, and I didn’t push it on him.” Michael nods, “If you don’t like it you don’t need to do it.” Looking down the road a ways, David isn’t too sure he likes the idea of self-driving trucks. “That worries me. Right now they got people in the cabs with it in case something goes wrong, but it is hard for me to comprehend (a truck) going down the road with nobody in the cab. They push electric cars and all this, but I think that is a few years down the road. It will be a slow process; it SLT ain’t gonna be overnight.” 10

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Long Story Short ■ Long’s Logging & Timber, LLC has the recipe for longevity in the forest products industry. By Patrick Dunning GIRARD, Ga. he Long brothers ★ aren’t afraid of work or being a little tired. They’re up at 4 a.m. and on the job site by dawn, mouthing a few strategic words about which blocks of timber to focus on before jumping in a cab and picking up where they left off the previous day. Brothers Daryl, 47, and Caroll, 50, acquired early-riser tendencies in their youth, milking dairy cows on their family’s farm six days per week before daylight alongside their father, Jimmy Long. “We were in the dairy business for 20 years and had close to 200 cows,” Caroll recalls. “The federal government got involved and that’s when prices went south. The dairy business kept getting smaller and

Caroll Long

there wasn’t much money to be made so he ventured into logging.” Logging replaced dairy farming as the family’s main source of income, and Jimmy’s boys had a knack for felling trees, so he decided to go full time, establishing Long’s Logging in 1995. Since its inception, the company has specialized in swamps and wet ground to separate themselves from the area’s multitude of high-production hill loggers.

Flashback The first time Southern Loggin’ Times visited Long’s Logging in 2000, Daryl’s swamp crew was running a ’97 Timbco cutter, ’00 Timberjack 460 and ’90 tracked 325 Prentice with a Hultdins grapple and SuperSaw. Back then, the Longs had converted a used ’95 Hitachi 200 excavator to a shovel

Daryl Long

machine and added a heel bar and Hultdins grapple with chain dubbed SuperSaw. They found that mounting the SuperSaw to their shovel logger helped handle some delimbing in the woods to reduce work for the loader operator and leave slash for matting skid trails. Caroll’s crew was similar, running a ’98 Timbco 415 cutter, ’98 Timberjack 460 skidder and ’90 Prentice TMS with 310 knuckleboom loader. The brothers rebranded to Long’s Logging & Timber LLC in 2010 after Jimmy passed away from cancer. His sons changed the name but kept many of their father’s methods. The only obvious difference now is newer woods iron and equipment dealers. Caroll and Daryl share ownership of the company, each overseeing a swamp crew. A third crew under the Long’s Logging banner is led by Caroll’s son, CJ Long, 27. This crew serves as the

agile operation, capable of moving on a dime and cutting smaller and more complex tracts.

Operations When SLT revisited Long’s Logging & Timber in November 2021, Daryl’s crew was running woods equipment akin to the company’s early years, including bogie skidders and tracked shovel machines, only the newer machines he’s using now are exclusively Tigercat. “We’re running more bogie skidders on two of our jobs since you last saw us,” Caroll says. “We were running a shovel back then and had a Timbco; decided to go with Tigercat when they came on in the ’90s.” He adds, “We’re on our fifth bogie skidder. We like to run them

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four-to-five years and rotate them to accrue a little equity. Plus, after five years they have close to 12,000 hours on them so it keeps from having to work on them very much.” As to why they favor Tigercat, the brothers cite the brand’s durability and the service provided by AllWood Equipment. “We went with Tigercat because of its proximity to our shop and their good service,” Caroll says. “We like the dealership and the way they’re built.” Daryl and Caroll work with Allen Coleman, general manager, and Jamie Smith, sales manager, at AllWood’s Washington location. Because all of Long’s Logging’s woods equipment is under warranty, maintenance is limited to oil changes every 250 hours, per manufacturer recommendation, using Mystik oil. Trucks are greased every other day and oil is changed at the 30,000-mile mark. “We change oil and service brakes and tires but everything else is under warranty. The way these newer machines are designed you have to hook a computer up to fix just about everything,” Caroll says. “Everything is designed to go back to the shop so we keep them new enough that they’re under warranty.” Deon Golphin serves as Long’s Logging’s inhouse mechanic.

Daryl’s crew was operating on a 250-acre private tract conducting a clear-cut prescription on a wet section of land in Bullock County. Among the three crews, Caroll says they can cut any tract and stay split up to diversify. “All three of us can cut any tract but usually his (Daryl) or my crew cut the bigger tracts with longer skids, versus crew number three,” Caroll says. “The other crew has a spare bogie skidder just in case we get on too long of a drag, we’re able to bring it in. If we get on a tract that needs it versus the 620, we’ll swap it out and put our larger bogie on that job.” Daryl confirms, “We split up to be able to cut smaller tracts as well as big ones, just to stay useful. Anybody that needs us to cut, we can cut anything.” Crews try to stay within a 45-mile radius of each other. Two 635H bogie skidders, ’19 and ’21 models, lay slash down for added traction on Georgia’s damp ground following weekend showers. Bogies are fitted with dual PrimeX tires (30.5 inside, 24.5 outside) and feature a 146 in. grapple. The brothers like to keep drags between 1,8002,500 ft. and recently purchased a ’21 bogie 620 skidder as well. The ’16 Tigercat S855E shovel logger, equipped with 36 in. triple grouser pads, is built for heavy-duty

36 in. triple grouser pads work well on damp Georgia dirt.

forestry applications and maneuvers well in low spots. Its 5195 directional felling saw is capable of felling, shoveling and bunching, effectively reducing time and labor. Daryl mans a ’20 Tigercat 234B loader at the landing, stacking and sorting hardwood species including red oak, ash, sweet gum and tupelo. Daryl says there’s a few pine trees scattered along the edges of the field as well. Long’s Logging contracts for Battle Lumber Co. Inc., Wadley, and purchases nearly 20% of its own stumpage. Daryl’s crew averages 60 loads per week, and all three crews together average 150 loads weekly.

Trucking One area in which the Long brothers remain strong is their trucking. With 14 trucks and 13 full-time drivers, Long’s Logging &

Timber has been able to avoid a lot of the grueling truck driver shortages other loggers currently face. The secret, Caroll says, is taking care of their drivers. “We have some that have been with us a while; just retired one and another passed away recently. We just hired three last week and outside of them, the rest have been with us, some close to 10 years,” Caroll says. “We treat them fair so they’ll stay.” Long’s Logging runs four Kenworths, four Macks and six Freightliners, the oldest one an ‘18 model. Truck dealers are MHC Kenworth, Augusta; Vanguard Truck Center, Savannah; and Freightliner of Augusta. The company’s assortment of 14 Pitts and nine McLendon trailers are used for hauling wood to Battle Lumber and International Paper locations in Bloomingdale, Augusta and Eastover, SC.

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Bogies run PrimeX tires, 30.5 inside and 24.5 out.

Caroll says trucker shortages are still a challenge and paying truck drivers more in 2022’s stagflation period doesn’t improve the company’s bottom line. “It’s a different ball game for truck drivers who haul freight than those who haul wood,” he explains. “You tell your freight company you need to pay your drivers more, they can justify it and pass it down, whereas in the logging industry everyone has a cut-and-haul rate and if the mills don’t agree to adjust it you can’t pay your drivers more. We’re already paying more for fuel and truck parts. Where is the money going to come from if someone says we need to increase freight rates? We know we need to but where will the money come from?”

Markets Daryl says their pandemic-ridden markets are surprisingly on the mend, despite rising equipment costs and driver shortages. From what he’s heard through the grapevine, some mills don’t have a full winter inventory and will need a dry season to make it. Luckily for the Longs, a wet season won’t hurt their production. “Everyone needs a dry winter to make it through,” Daryl says. “I’m hoping for a normal winter; just let it rain. We’re on the hardwood side of the market so it doesn’t bother us. It’s a unique market. There’s a combination of mills running really well, even with transportation issues and shortages, it’s been

building. Can’t get enough wood to the mills. Some mills are having a problem shipping product out because of driver shortages.” Hardwood pulpwood is wide open right now, Caroll says, along with overseas markets in demand for pine logs. Good thing the Longs are multi-faceted and able to navigate their market’s ebbs and flows. “Markets come and go. At times there’s a big hardwood push, other times a big pine push. We just concentrate on shovel logging wetlands,” Caroll says. “Biggest thing is trying to keep costs down. We keep having to become more and more efficient, which is hard to do. Labor, equipment and input costs are all rising but rates don’t change much.” During this period of inflationary pressures the brothers haven’t had to let anyone go but do try to minimize labor costs. “The fella on my loader ran it for 20 years, was in the truck for five, and last year we put him back in a truck and I’ve been running the loader full time,” Daryl says. The brothers are fortunate to have sons and sons-in-law coming up in the business. Caroll’s son, CJ Long, 27, and son-in-law, Rusty Burke, 27, work together on crew three. Daryl’s son-in-law, Johnathon Jones, works on the third crew and his son, Mark Long, plans to join the fold when he graduates high school. “We’ve been fortunate with the guys we hired,” Caroll says. “Altogether we’ve been in logging 31 years. It’s been great; we haven’t SLT figured out how to quit.”

All three crews together produce 150 loads per week.

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FROM THE BACKWOODS PEW

Lean On Me We are driving across the farmer’s field, approaching his 50 acres of timber. The stand borders the field on two sides. As we approach the stand, Antill

we notice that the trees along the field are rather large, with lots of limbs, and the brush appears to be thick. The rookie forester believes he has wasted his time. His mill does not want such rough-looking logs, and he would rather not fight brush on such poor looking timber. But before we leave, let’s look closer. The brush around the stand is indeed heavy, forming a fence-like barrier around the timber. There is a reason for this. The young

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forester will learn that sunlight coming in from the field edge is the cause. The morning or afternoon sunlight will angle its way into the stand, causing briars, saplings, honeysuckle, and a host of vegetation to grow. With a little persistence, the stand can be penetrated, and after some 60 to 70 feet, the stand will usually clear out under the timber. The shade from the interior trees will keep the forest floor shaded, and inhibit the growth

of most shrubs and small trees. Our young forester, after breaking past the exterior defense of the stand, now notices a change in the trees. They have become slightly smaller in diameter, but have fewer limbs. It looks like a stand his mill would like to have. What happened? Trees on the outside of a stand, particularly one with a field edge, will always outgrow trees on the interior of a stand. It is simply a matter of sunlight and moisture. Trees on the edge have a whole side free of competition and all the sunlight they want, and all the water and nutrients they need. They don’t have to share. For this reason they grow. But there is a drawback. As a tree grows, limbs serve the purpose of supplying more branches and thus more leaves. This results in more photosynthesis. Inside a stand, with other trees to compete with, the trees must grow upward as fast as they can to capture as much sunlight as possible. Branches, taking valuable nutrients away from the trunk, will slow the vertical growth down, causing a tree to lose its spot in the sunlight. The edge trees do not have this problem, as they already have sunlight. Thus they grow big old branches. In short, the large trees and the brush serve as a barrier to the interior trees. When storms and high winds roar across the land this barrier of large trees and heavy underbrush absorb the initial blast. They form a barrier, protecting the inner trees. This is especially evident when a hurricane comes ashore. When Hurricane Fran struck in 1996, stands of trees along the Coastal Plain of North Carolina took a severe beating—in particular, trees along the field edges. The gale force winds would rocket across the bare, open fields and slam into the woodlots. The pressure upon the trees to break was tremendous, and many did. But it was the squat trees, with their big branches, and the brush that took the full brunt of the storm. By the time the wind penetrated the stand, it had lost much of its fury. These barrier trees lost limbs, tops, and many of them fell inward. Some took on a fatal lean, but they had served their purpose. The higher quality trees nestled inside the stand were spared because of the barrier trees. The Apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 6:2, Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. As a father, I can especially relate to the idea of protecting and bearing burdens for my children, shielding them from situations that may cause them harm. I would do this even at the expense of getting

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hurt myself. After all, that is my job. But Paul here states that Christ expects that same sacrifice for the sake of others, not just my kids. That’s tough to do. Could I accept an insult that I don’t deserve? Help to pay a bill I did not incur? Giving my hard-earned money to help someone in need? Where would it stop? I notice Paul did not place a limit or qualifier on this verse, and that is scary. In the woods, the barrier trees offer protection until they rest on the forest floor. Their value, while maybe not in terms of grade lumber, is certainly in the protection of the higher-value, inner trees. Maybe Christ had that in mind when He admonished us to think about others first. In Philippians 2:3b and 4, Paul again is after us to look at others first, even to value their life and well-being over our own. He wrote: ...let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Excerpted from Bibles, Beavers, and Big Timber, Bradley Antill, author. Visit www.onatreeforestry for more titles such as this.

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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP As We See It: It Is Not About Us, It’s About You By Scott Dane American Loggers Council is not about the American Loggers Council, it is about you—the members of the American Loggers Council. We just have the privilege of representing and working for Dane

you. Sometimes people and organizations lose sight of who works for whom, and the tail begins to wag the dog. American Loggers Council will never wag the dog. It reminds me of the old story about the donkey carrying Jesus through Jerusalem

and from the donkey’s perspective, seeing all of the people lining the streets and laying down palm fronds, thinking to himself—“wow, I must be important, look at all of the people that came out to see me.” American Loggers Council is just a donkey, carrying the issues of our members, working on their behalf. The success of American Loggers Council is only because of the collective representation that each of our

members—state association members, associate members and individual logger members—provides. None of our success would be possible without the membership. You open doors for the American Loggers Council. Recently, while in DC the American Loggers Council wanted to meet with Congressman McCarthy (CA). The American Loggers Council contacted the Associated California Loggers, which provided contact and introduction information that secured a meeting to discuss and share the American Loggers Council legislative agenda. It was a similar situation with Congressional meetings with Mississippi, Wisconsin, Maine and others to discuss the need for additional PATHH funding. Similarly, each state association represents the timber industry in their respective state. As such, they too are “donkeys” working for their members. Their efforts are directly impacted by their membership. One of my greatest frustrations while representing Minnesota for 17 years was the monetary, political and resource investment made by the members of the Associated Contract Loggers and Truckers of Minnesota that resulted in millions of dollars in legislative, policy and program benefits, that nonmembers fully embraced, but neglected to support. The cost of membership in your state associations is minimal compared to the proven benefits. If every stakeholder invested in their state association, even more could be accomplished. If you are one of the more than 5,000 loggers and truckers who received PATHH assistance, if you are not a member of your state association, you should be. PATHH would not have happened without the collective effort of the state timber associations. Additionally, as a member of your state association, which is a member of the American Loggers Council, you are automatically a member of American Loggers Council and eligible for all of the benefits afforded American Loggers Council members. Join American Loggers Council by joining your state association. To contact your state association, visit www.amloggers.com and click on the state membership link, scroll down and click on the respective state. Stronger Together. Scott Dane is Executive Director of the American Loggers Council. ALC is a 501(c)(6) trade association representing the interests of timber harvesting and timber hauling businesses across the United States. For more information visit www.amloggers.com.

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Industry Leader Allen Bedell Memorialized In Arkansas Allen Bedell, the his family, he had suffered Arkansas forest activist from congestive heart failwho worked tirelessly to ure for several months. advance the industry Bedell was among a through many channels at group of core loggers who local, state and national levformed the Arkansas Timels, was honored at a ber Producers Assn. (ATPA) memorial service on Januin 1991 and who interary 8 at the First United viewed that group’s first Allen Bedell Methodist Church in Hot and only Executive DirecSprings. Bedell, 83, died on January tor, Larry Boccarossa, who issued 3 at a local hospital. According to this statement: “Over the years I

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developed a very special relationship with Allen. I leaned on him on many occasions, seeking his guidance on issues affecting the association. The logging and timber producing industry has lost one of its best representatives.” A native of Louisiana, Bedell earned an undergraduate degree in forestry at LSU and later earned a Master of Forestry degree at Yale. In 1960 he began his career with For-

dyce Lumber Co., Fordyce, Ark., acquired by G-P in 1965. Bedell settled into what he thought would be a lifetime career with G-P, but in a few years decided to exit the corporate world. In 1973 he turned to logging, leaning on the advice of several local veterans as he nursed and slowly developed his organization, which eventually became known as Circle B Logging, Inc. Energetic and able to see the big picture, he changed and adapted, over time converting Circle B to chipping, and later adding a second chipping entity, QSDC, Inc. In the ‘80s Bedell became active in the Arkansas Forestry Assn., serving in various capacities and eventually becoming president, during which time he was instrumental in AFA’s adopting the national Log-A-Load for Kids program, which has generated more than $10 million for the state’s children’s hospital. He networked to help secure funding through the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) for landowner education training, which led to the formation of the nationally recognized Ark Pro Logger program. He served on the AFA executive committee for 31 years and was named AFA’s Outstanding Logger in 1989 and 1994. The Bedell family’s logging/ chipping interests were honored as Timber Harvesting magazine’s inaugural Logging Business of the Year in 1998. Here is part of what TH Co-Publisher DK Knight wrote about Bedell in that October: “Allen Bedell, the driven risk taker, the guy who probably had no future in the big corporate world, has come far. He started at the bottom of the mountain and conquered it through determination, unbridled energy, intelligence, innovation, optimism and preparation. Appropriately, he gives much of the credit to a group of talented, dedicated employees and a loving, supportive family. Bedell became active in the American Pulpwood Assn., forerunner to FRA, serving on various committees before becoming Chairman for 2003-2004. He was the first logging business principal to serve in this capacity, a notable accomplishment itself, considering that the organization was/is dominated by wood consumers, not suppliers. According to Richard Lewis, Bedell’s leadership led to FRA’s implementing a program designed to help improve relationships between wood suppliers and consumers. Bedell retired from business in 2006. He served on the Arkansas Forestry Commission for nine years, three as Chairman. He also served

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on the Arkansas Agriculture Board and in 2017 was inducted into the Arkansas Hall of Fame. Survivors include his widow, Lou—they were married for many decades—one daughter, one son, three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and two brothers. The family requests that memorials be made to Arkansas Children’s Hospital through Log-A-Load for Kids, 1 Children’s Way, Slot 661, Little Fork, AR 72202; or to First United Methodist Church, 1100 Central Ave., Hot Springs, AR 71901.

Bandit Purchases The Trelan Co. Bandit Industries has purchased The Trelan Co. from the Schumacher family. Bandit will continue to produce Trelan chippers and related products and market them as Trelan machines produced by Bandit. Bandit will also supply parts and service to Trelan customers. Trelan has a strong history in the whole tree chipper arena. The first Trelan chippers were produced in the

early ’70s. The Trelan chippers will add volume without affecting the sale of Bandit’s line of whole tree chippers. Bandit will use Trelan’s 45,000 sq. ft. manufacturing space and 10,000 sq. ft. of storage buildings to continue to produce the Trelan machines and to produce additional Bandit machines. Because of the strong demand for Bandit products, Bandit is on a major expansion campaign. Three expansions of Bandit plants were completed in 2021 and two other expan-

sions will be completed in the first quarter of 2022. Three additional facilities will be built in 2022. Bandit now employs 610, up from 450 in 2020. Bandit has 110 job openings and hopes to increase employment to 800 employees by the end of 2022. Visit banditchip pers.com.

J. Wilson Jones, Jr. Left Big Mark John Wilson Jones, Jr., who continued to expand the family’s lumber business and was known as an innovator and leader in the lumber manufacturing industry, died peacefully at his home on December 23, 2021. He was 87, just two days shy of his 88th birthday. Wilson was reared in Camden County, NC and was a long-time resident of Elizabeth City. After graduating from Elizabeth City High School, Wilson continued his education and graduated from N. C. State University with a degree in Lumber Manufacturing and Merchandising. After graduating from college, he returned home in 1957 where he began his professional career in the lumber business founded by his father. When his father died in an automobile accident in 1960, Jones assumed the leadership of the company. During his career as owner and president, he continued to expand J. W. Jones Lumber Co. into a stateof-the-art lumber mill. He also acquired and expanded his operation with a second lumber mill, Mackey’s Ferry Sawmill in Roper, NC. He further expanded his business with the purchase of a chip mill in Elizabeth City.

Enviva Continues Expansion Enviva reports that construction of the industrial wood pellet plant in Lucedale, Miss. is nearing completion, and its terminal at the Port of Pascagoula also remains on track to receive, store and load production from the Lucedale plant. An expansion at the Northampton, NC pellet plant is complete and an expansion at the Southampton, Va. plant continues its commissioning ramp. Construction on the existing Greenwood, SC plant expansion is also nearing completion. Enviva has acquired projects at 15 plant sites, all in various stages of evaluation and development. One of these acquired sites is the fully contracted Epes, Ala. plant, which is currently under development. Enviva expect to commence construction there in early 2022, 26

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with an in-service date scheduled for mid-2023. The Epes plant is designed and permitted to produce more than 1 million MTPY of wood pellets, which would make it the largest wood pellet production plant in the world. A prospective production plant in Bond, Miss. is the next most likely to be constructed, and is being developed to produce between 750,000 and more than 1 million MTPY of wood pellets.

LEOA Graduates First Student Logger Class Mississippi’s Hinds Community College graduated its first batch of students from the new Logging Equipment Operator Academy (LEOA) in December 2021. Four students completed the 16-week workforce certificate course and received a Professional Logger Manager (PLM) qualification, OSHA-10 safety train-

ing, CPR/First Aid and TeamSafe Trucking Module 1-2. LEOA is located at Hinds’ Raymond, Miss. campus and features a John Deere rubber-tire simulator, two wheeled feller-bunchers, two track feller-bunchers and several desktop models with joysticks for teaching students with little to no experience how to operate woods machinery. The four-month course includes classroom instruction on forestry concepts, business management spe-

cific to logging, PLM qualifications, tree identification, equipment maintenance and DOT regulations, as well as several hours of seat time on actual feller-bunchers and knuckleboom loaders. Mississippi Loggers Assn. (MLA) and Mississippi Forestry Commission partnered with Hinds Community College, Justin McDermott at John Deere, and Scott Swanson, Stribling Equipment, to bring the program to life. Of the four students who recently graduated, three have already taken jobs within the industry. David Livingston, MLA Director, says they look to expand the LEOA program to existing loggers interested in training employees to operate other pieces of heavy equipment.

Teal Jones Group Plans New Sawmill Teal Jones Group owners Tom and Dick Jones announced that the company is evaluating Bossier Parish, La. to build a $110.5 million southern yellow pine sawmill. The company plans to locate the greenfield facility on 235 acres in Plain Dealing in Bossier Parish, which features easy access to rail.

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MACHINES-SUPPLIES-TECHNOLOGY M-Series Updated John Deere has introduced options and updates to its M-Series tracked feller-bunchers, harvesters and shovel logger. Enhancements have been

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April 29-30—Mid-Atlantic Logging-Biomass-Landworks Expo, near Laurinburg, NC. Call 919-271-9050; visit loggingexpo.com.

July 25-27—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Summer Conference, The Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, Va. Call 336-885-8315; visit appalachianhardwood.org. 29-31—Georgia Forestry Assn. Annual Conference, Hilton Head Island, SC. Call 478-992-8110; visit gfagrow.org.

August 11-14—Virginia Loggers Assn. annual meeting, Williamsburg Lodge, Williamsburg, Va. Call 804-677-4290; visit valoggers.org. 23-26—IWF 2022, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 404-693-8333; visit iwfatlanta.com. 29-September 2—Louisiana Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino Resort, Lake Charles, La. Call 318443-2558; visit laforestry.com.

September 9-10—Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo, Resch Expo, Green Bay, Wis. Call 715282-5828; visit gltpa.org. 11-13—Alabama Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, Ala. Call 334-265-8733; visit alaforestry.org.

October 26-28—Texas Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center, College Station, Tex. Call 936-632-8733; visit texas forestry.org. Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.

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